Subject: Re: kern/25659
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/11/2005 15:57:35
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:36:23AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <20050611100243.GA2301@antioche.eu.org>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
> >
> >--VrqPEDrXMn8OVzN4
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >Content-Disposition: inline
> >
> >On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:12:02AM +0000, John Refling wrote:
> >>    I have a pcmcia ide controller and drive
> >>  package called "Data Disaster Recovery System
> >>  for Notebooks" by ei, an Agate' company.  This
> >>  had the same symptom of never seeing the disk,
> >>  until I applied the first patch above, and all
> >>  worked well!
> >>  
> >>     This is in NetBSD/i386 ver 2.02.
> >
> >Hi,
> >can you try the attached patches instead (one for 2.0, one for 3.0/current) ?
> >This should do the same thing as the patch in the PR, without busy-waiting.
> 
> 
> I no longer have access to the equipment where I first encountered the 
> bug.  I do have an old pcmcia hard drive that I can use to verify that 
> the patch doesn't break things that used to work.

If that's easy for you please do. I don't have any IDE PCMCIA stuff.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--